It was 45 years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play.

[Grantuspeace]

[GReedDiamond]

1. Yes it was...

...YES.

[RZM]

2. Such a great song. An absolute classic

I remember NPR doing the 40th anniversary. Kind of sad that it's already the 45th.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. They were SO GOOD.

Amazing...

[Art_from_Ark]

4. I used to have a video tape recording of the PBS program produced in 1987

to mark the 20th anniversary titled, appropriately enough, "It was 20 years ago today..."

It's hard to believe that now even that program was 25 years ago

[Archae]

13. I still have that program somewhere in my place.

[MrSlayer]

5. Technically, it was 65 years ago today.

It was forty-five years ago today that we heard about Sgt. Pepper teaching the band to play 20 years previous to that.

So......yeah.

Great stuff though.

[arnell7]

6. I had that PBS video as well...

I think it had the best take on that period I've seen. It managed to convey the playfulness mixed in with the heaviness as has no other production of which I know. I hope someone posts it to you tube.

[Skinner]

7. Welcome to DU, arnell7.

[Wait Wut]

9. EVERYBODY ACT COOL!

Skinner's in The Lounge.

Um...I mean, what's up, Skinner?

[Ptah]

8. Thanks for being here, Grantuspeace

[A Simple Game]

10. One of only two good albums the Beatles made.

Abby road being the second.

[edbermac]

11. Rubber Soul? Revolver? Not good?

[A Simple Game]

12. Sgt. Pepper first then Abby Road, nothing else worth listening to.

I suppose I am in the minority and they may have had a good song here or there on some of their other albums.

I was never a big beatles fan, Hey Jude almost makes me puke, especially the long version.

Most of their music was just too boring for me, way too many good bands in the '60s to have to listen to those boring guys.

Yes I was a teenager in the '60s.

[Art_from_Ark]

14. And yet, all of their albums, with the exception of Yellow Submarine,

made it to Number 1. And Yellow Submarine made it to Number 2.

[A Simple Game]

15. I never said they weren't popular.

I just didn't and still don't like most of their work.